World Routes: On The Road to Present Previously Unreleased World music from BBC3

World Routes: On The RoadWorld Routes: On The Road, scheduled for release on November 14, is a 2 CD set of previously unreleased material recorded by the BBC Radio 3 program World Routes on location over the last 10 years. It features some of the biggest names in world music, including Grammy award-winning Toumani Diabate.

World Routes is the BBC’s flagship world music show listened to by around 100,000 radio listeners in the UK on BBC Radio 3, and millions across the globe via the the BBC World Service. Since the autumn of 2000, World Routes has broadcast sessions and live concerts with a complete “Who’s Who” of world music artists from Youssou N’Dour, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Khaled, to Mariza, Caetano Veloso and Ravi Shankar.

However, World Routes is not just interested in the stars of world music, but is also on a mission is to travel to the most far-flung corners of the planet to document and – in its own small way – preserve endangered musical traditions. In the past 10 years, the program’s producers and sound engineers, along with presenter Lucy Duran and a team of guest presenters, have left the comfort of London’s Broadcasting House in search of real roots traditions. To date, the show has visited some 53 countries, including 15 in Africa, 15 in Asia, and 9 in the Americas.

The album has been co-produced by World Routes’ presenter Lucy Duran, who is also a Grammy-award winning record producer responsible for ‘Segu Blue‘ (2007) and ‘I Speak Fula‘ (2009) by the acclaimed Malian ngoni virtuoso, Bassekou Kouyate.

The deluxe 2 CD digipack comes with a 44-page booklet featuring notes and photographs from Lucy Duran and the production team.

Author: Angel Romero

Angel Romero y Ruiz has been writing about world music and progressive music for many years. He founded the websites worldmusiccentral.org and musicasdelmundo.com. Angel co-produced “Musica NA”, a music show for Televisión Española (TVE) in Spain that featured an eclectic mix of world music, fusion, electronica, new age and contemporary classical music. Angel also produced and remastered world music and electronic music albums, compilations and boxed sets for Alula Records, Ellipsis Arts, Music of the World, Lektronic Soundscapes, and Mindchild Records. He was also the executive producer of the first Latino feature film made in North Carolina titled “Los sueños de Angélica.”.